Our Town (2006, opera)

From a February 25, 2006 review by TheNew York Times:

Aaron Copland wanted to make it an opera. So did Leonard Bernstein. But
Thornton Wilder, the author of "Our Town," turned both composers
down. Now, 68 years after it was written and 30 years after Wilder's death, the
play has made it to the opera stage. "Our Town," with music by Ned
Rorem and a libretto by J. D. McClatchy, received its premiere here on Friday
evening by the Indiana University Opera Theater, one of six commissioners of
this opera. [more]

The opera made its debut in the Monadnock Region during the 2008-2009 season of the Raylynmor Opera company.